Youth Guidance is hiring a
About Our Organization:
At Youth Guidance, we believe that no matter what challenges a young person faces, they are more likely to succeed when they have caring adults in their lives. Our highly-trained staff guides kids to overcome the life and academic challenges facing Chicago’s youth. We meet kids where they are — physically and emotionally — to help them focus on their education, make positive choices, and remain on the right path toward life success.
Founded in 1924 today Youth Guidance is a leading provider of outcomes-driven programs serving more than 8,500 youth while touching the lives of more than 14,000 youth, parents, teachers, and community members.
About You:
You have the passion and desire to work in a dynamic non-profit organization, you have the talent and skills to perform the job, and now you’re looking for just the right opportunity. At Youth Guidance you’ll have the chance to use your passion and skills working alongside a team of talented individuals who share the same values.
Position Summary: This position is responsible for the coordination and implementation of Working on Womanhood program in schools. This includes recruitment, enrollment, program implementation, providing support to families and systemic engagement activities necessary for successful programming, as well as training support for new WOW Counselors. This position is also responsible for supporting the transition of new WOW Counselors in their school. This position works collaboratively with Curriculum Specialist, and Regional Manager to implement WOW Program in schools and to support new WOW Counselors with transition into their roles.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Education/Experience/Training
Skills/Abilities
Core Competencies
**Communication:**Uses effective written and oral communication with internal staff, teams, and community served; demonstrates empathy and listening skills.
**Client orientation:**Recognizes needs of diverse stakeholders and approaches relationships with a service orientation, to ultimately maximize the impact.
**Equity mindset:**Understands and is committed to goals of equity, consistently brings an equity mindset to the organization’s work and workplace.
**Growth mindset:**Views growth as important for personal and professional development; seeks out opportunities to expand skills, even if the change is required, demonstrates curiosity and eagerness to learn.
**Ownership and quality of work:**Effectively manages own work, and work of the team to ensure delivery of high-quality work.
**Supervisory skills:**Effectively manages and develops others.
**Mission drive:**Demonstrates commitment to the mission of the organization as a whole and alignment with organizational values.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stoop, kneel and crouch.
The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal.
The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
DEI Statement
At Youth Guidance, we understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are fundamental to realizing our vision of bright and successful futures for all young people. We celebrate the diversity of youth and recognize them as empowered leaders, problem-solvers, and experts of their own experiences. At the same time, we acknowledge that many systems and institutions meant to support youth are inequitable and unjust.
Youth Guidance is an equal-opportunity employer and proudly values diversity. Youth Guidance does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity along all of these lines. People of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
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